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Inge Timmers, PhD

I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at Tilburg University. I also hold a Visiting Professor position at Ghent University.

Before this, I worked at the Rehabilitation Medicine department at Maastricht University and the Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain (BPP) lab at Stanford University.

I am broadly interested in using neuroimaging as a tool to probe psychosocial mechanisms in clinical conditions, including persistent pain.

My Research Interests

neural correlates of persistent pain in adults and youth

parent empathic responses to their child’s pain

understanding biobehavioral factors that contribute to pain, including stress, fears and worries, avoidance behavior, sensory aspects

brain plasticity following cognitive behavioral treatment

predicting treatment responses using neuroimaging

approach-avoidance behavior and its interaction with threats and rewards

functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

experimental psychology paradigms (for instance, empathy evoking, stress inducing or threat learning paradigms)

psychophysiological assessments (such as cortisol samples, heart rate variability)

diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and modeling (including neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging or NODDI)

meta-analyses to synthesize neuroimaging or behavioral research findings

My Research Methods

Below you find a few highlighted figures from my research papers (see Publications)

  • Heathcote, Timmers et al., 2020, Pain (Figure 5)
  • Timmers et al., 2019, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews (Figure 2)
  • Timmers et al., 2019, Frontiers in Neuroscience (Figure 3)
  • Timmers et al., 2016, PLoS ONE (Figure 2)
  • Timmers, et al., 2018, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (Figure 2)
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Inge Timmers, PhD

Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Tilburg University

inge.timmers [at] tilburguniversity.edu